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Professor Robert Leonard

Medical oncology

Specialises in

Breast

Haematological

Lower GI

About me

I trained in London as a house doctor and senior house officer, Oxford as a registrar and research fellow, Newcastle as a senior registrar and
I was awarded the Cancer Research Campaign Travelling Fellowship in 1981 to train as a Clinical Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston before returning to the UK to take up a senior lectureship and hon consultant post in Edinburgh where I worked for 19 years helping to start the academic medical oncology department.
I was offered the new Chair of Medical Oncology and Chair of the South West Wales Cancer Institute in 2001 and left 5 years later to lead the oncology department at Imperial College NHS Trust as a Professor of Oncology. I retired from the NHS in 2011.

Current NHS consultant posts held

I no longer work as an NHS consultant but I continue to consult at the private wings of both Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals.

Research interests

Published over 300 papers on the biology and treatment of human cancer for over 40 years.
In recent focus has been on the management of breast cancer currently on the the value of molecular profiling of advanced cancer to better select effective drug therapy.
Set up the Anglo Celtic Collaborative Oncology Group- trials in breast cancer continue.

Personal interests

Help set up Maggies Cancer Caring Charity with my patient, Maggie Jencks and research nurse , Laura Lee who is now Chief Executive
Now over 15 centres at major Cancer Centre sites in UK and abroad
Main Board Medical Member and Chair Professional Advisory Board
Ex-Chair Research Committee 'Breast Cancer Care'
Continue sporting activity in football, golf.
Amateur astronomy, cosmology
Classical Music

Awards received

Medical School Final Year Prizes in Medicine, surgery, pathology and clinical medal.
Postgraduate research prize in Oxford
Cancer Research Campaign Traveliing Fellow to Dana Farber Cancer Centre, Boston 1981-2
Team leader and Finalist in Hospital Doctor of the Year Oncology 1994
Finalist Communication in Oncology 1995
2005 Special Commendation Hospital Doctor of the Year-Oncology Team

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